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J. JEREMIAH GAME REGISTER AND TIMER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.18. I919.

Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN JnnEMrAn, onmnn'rnyn .TYDFIL, ENGLAND.

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Patented Sept. 9 1919 Application filed mist 13,1919. "Serial No. 271,807.

progress of a lurality of games ofbilliards or bagatelle w ereby an attendant can keep a register of the times which have been occupied in the simultaneous progress of a plurality of games of billiards atthe several tables in a billiard saloon, the object of the invention being to provide a rotating perforated disk adapted to carry .one or more rods or pegs bearing marks indicative of the table or description of the game being played and automatically drop them at the end of a specified period in a manner to produce an aural indication of the termination of the game. I. .i

The accompanying drawing illustrates the apparatus whereby the invention can be performed. i a a In this drawing2-1- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the appliance with its lids open.

Fi 2 is a planflview of the appliance, the lids being closed.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig: 2, with one of the lids removed to show the interior con struction.

Fig. 1- is a vertical sectional view, parts being in elevation.

Fig. 5 is a detail plan view of the fixed plate.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of two of the pegs.

In these figures, A is a compound disk shown constructed in duplicated. plates which, with an intervening distance piece, is mounted toundergo uniform angular rotation, as by clock-mechanism for example, it being for this purpose carried in the manner of the minute hand of a clock, for which hand the disk is substituted.

The disk is perforated by a plurality of rings of small apertures a a? a. adapted to receive and carry vertically situated short rods or pegs, the apertures a being larger than the apertures a and a".

The rods or pegs are supported on a fixed plate B beneath the rotating disk.

At the commencement of a game a rod or of apertures f, f? and f pegbearing a number or mark distinguishing the billiard table on which the game 1s to be played 1s inserted in one of the apertures ofthe revolving disk A and it is, so

arranged that at the end of the pre-arranged interval of time for which the billiard table is engaged for the game, therods 01' pegs will be conveyed over the surface of the fixed plate B to arrive at a gap 1) formed therein as shown .in Fig. 4:. 1 a 1 Atlthis instant the rod or peg will drop through a chute on to the tray C. The tray is so balanced on a pivot that the added weight ofthe rod Or peg causes it. to drop and make electrical contact thereby completing acircuit from batteries D through an electric bell E which forthwith. com

mences and continues to ring untilthe rod or peg hasbeen abstracted from thetray- C by the attendant in charge.

0 It can beso arranged that the above ldescribed electric circuit is at thesame time QOmPIeted through a bell ailixed to the billiard table on which the game is being played, and the players thereby warned that the time specified for the game has expired.

A lid F may be hinged or secured in any other suitable manner to the casingof the device, and in this lidare formed a plurality At the under side of the lid or cover Fare slidably mounted a pair, of. arms fi and 7, located .1 at opposite sidesiof the rotating disk A and provided with upstanding projections or pins f and f extending through slots in the lid F and adapted to enable the arms to be moved beneath the lid. The arms f and f are provided with portions normally underlying the apertures F, f and P, to prevent pegs which may be inserted into such apertures from directly enterin the apertures a a and a of the rotating c isks A, but by sliding one or the other of the arms backward by means of its operating pin, pegs which have been inserted in the apertures f and f willbe permitted to drop into the corresponding apertures in the rotary disk A.

Adapted to be operated by the movement of the arms f and f, respectively, are a pair of registering devices i and 71 These devices are of commonly well known construction, and it is thought that further illustration and description of the details of the registering devices are unnecessary, since I am making no claim to the registering devices per se. The registering devices are into the apertures a. which will'elap'se before the pegs in the apershown connected With the arms 7 and f by means of Wire connections and 3 pins inserted in the apertures of the lid Flto drop into theapertures of. the rotary disk A. Itis also deemed unnecessary to illustrate in detail the mechanism for "rotating the "disk A. Thismay be done by means of a clock movement,- as a, or any other similar device.

Fromthe construction described, it'will be seen that the pegs inserted throng-lithe aperture f enter theapertures a in the diskA at .a --positi'on-angula rly more distant from the opening or gap 6- in the stationary plate B than "do the pegs inserted through the aperture f into the apertures-- 11 and slightly less distant fromithegap'bpf the plate B than pins inserted through the aperture i Hence, the period tures a are dropped, is longer than' the period which Willfelapse before the pegs in thea'pertures a are dropped and slightly less than the period which will elapse? before the pegs in the apertures a are dropped. fPegs' are therefore inserted in the apertures a to time games of longer duration than the pegs inserted in the aperture f and of slightly *shorter duration than pegs inserted infthe aperturesf". The second lid or cover 'Gmay be hinged or otherwise secured at the side-of the casing Where the pegs are deliveredto the tray (J soas-to give access to such tray, Ia glazed aperture g beingfpreferably formedin suchcover.

I e1aimv 1. A device ofthe class described including a-casing,1a disk mounted for rotationfin These registering devices indicate the number of times the arms have been operated; to permit said casing and provided with a plurality of annular rows of perforations, a plurality of pegs adapted to be inserted in sald perforat ons, a lidfor the casing having a plurahty of perforations, one for each of said annular rows, m eans carried by said lid for; normally separating the lid perioratlons from the disk perforations and -manually operable eXter1- orly of the lid to permit passage of a peg from a lid perforation to a disk-perforation, and ineansconnected With said separating means for registering the operation thereof.

2. A device of the class described including a casing, a disk -mounted forrotatlon in said casing and provided with a plurality of,

annular rows of perforations, arplurality of pegs adapted to be inserted into: said perforations, a lid for said casing having aplurality of perforations, one for each of said annular IOWSfIIlGELDS carried by the a lid and arranged interiorly of the i casing for normally separating the lid perforations from the disk perforations, and manually operable-exteriorlyof the lid tovperniit the passage' of a peg frfom a lid perforation to a disk-perforation, means connected with the separating" means for registering the operation thereof, a stationary :disk mounted in said casingbelowthe-rotatingdisk and pro vided with an opening through Which a eg "Ceylon? of 1211185 piten't may he-obtained for five. cents each;j:-by addressing the f'coinmissi'oner 1 of: Patents,

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